HHS to award grants for AI, behavioral health projects
The Department of Health and Human Services May 13 announced it will issue two $1 million grants for fiscal year 2024 to fund projects focusing on artificial intelligence in health care and the use of information technology in behavioral health. The AI area focuses on developing solutions to evaluate and improve the quality of health care data available in electronic health record technologies used by AI tools, while the behavioral health area focuses on developing and piloting lightweight solutions that can enhance IT capabilities in behavioral health settings and improve care coordination between behavioral health and clinical health care settings.
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